happy birthday darrell

Yesterday was Darrell's birthday. Alysha decided that she wanted to bake and decorate a cake, I thought that was pretty sweet of her. She did a really good job, I might add. We also made him a special b-day dinner of grilled rib eye and all the trimmings, very yummy.

drawing the camera

decorating

frosting the cakethe birthday boy"Have a picture perfect day"

trevor's song

Trevor brought me this piece of paper the other day and said "I wrote a song, Mom". I was very impressed with the words that were given him. It proves again that God speaks to our children.

Jesus Saves us all

Jesus has come to make you new.
He will save our soul we might not sin again.
But we all have been born again.

Jesus, Jesus we will praise you an say holy, holy are you.
Bless you in the name of God.
Jesus has come to make you new.

Jesus, Jesus you are the holy one we will praise you and adore you.
Jesus, Jesus you are the holy one we will praise you and adore you.

christmas cookies

we continued our tradition, making Christmas cookies...

Drew gets his deer!!

Drew shot his deer this morning about 7:40am. He had a nice 40 yard heart shot! He was very excited.

Here he is getting a taste of field dressing his deer.

work in progress - part 3

We thought the zip-line was going to get finished on Saturday, no such luck. They put a 60# weight on it to test it and was doing fine until the anchor started coming up out of the ground, not good. Safety first, so they will have to redo it :(the lineDrew cutting down a tree that was in the path of the lineHe did it!!Grandpa tightening the line

Happy Thanksgiving

We had a very nice day at home today. We started with brunch this morning and then pulled all the Christmas decorations out and the kids put up their tree upstairs, while I was restringing the tree downstairs :( that was not a fun job. I had to cut all the old lights off b/c half of the lights didn't work and I couldn't just replace them because they were the frosted lights. So I/we (Alysha helped me) spent half the day replacing them, argh! Tonight I cooked a traditional Thanksgiving dinner of turkey, mashed potatoes, salad and dressing (mom you should be very impressed) my mom always makes the dressing, since the rest of us don't really know how. It was actually pretty good, still not as good as my Mom's. We topped it all off with pumpkin pie.

Darrell and the boys spent a good part of the day working on the zip line. Hopefully it will be done soon.putting up the tree

Drew carving the turkeyour yummy dinner

day 1

It was a good day for hunting at Beachy Creek. Darrell and Drew were out in the stand by 5:30 this morning and it was veery cold out. They had to wait until 9:15 for a buck to make his way past the stand, they almost missed him. Darrell had dozed off and Drew was on the lookout when he saw this buck come up behind them, so he woke Darrell and the rest is history. Drew couldn't shoot b/c he only had a doe tag :( So, tomorrow will be Drew's lucky day!
Drew had a great first day of hunting and is ready to go again."the big one"